Frannys Highlands Quotes & Sayings

As a financial historian, I was quite isolated in Oxford - British historians are supposed to write about kings - so the quality of intellectual life in my field is much higher at Harvard. The students work harder there. — Niall Ferguson

to teach without zest is a crime. — Virginia Woolf

When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really trully and honestly take those back ... — John Green

Could I fight against rumor? I did not think so, for rumor had no grave and only bore seeds. It germinated in the air, thrived in the sun, and ripened in the shadows. It would not die in the rain and fly only higher in the wind. — Weina Dai Randel

You don't know the difference between truth and make-believe. You never stop acting. It's second nature to you. You act when there's a party here. You act to the servants, you act to father, you act to me. To me you act the part of the fond, indulgent, celebrated mother. You don't exist, you're only the innumerable parts you've played. I've often wondered if there was ever a you or if you were never anything more than a vehicle for all these other people that you've pretended to be. When I've seen you go into an empty room I've sometimes wanted to open the door suddenly, but I've been afraid to in case I found nobody there. — W. Somerset Maugham

Introduce a little anarchy, upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos, I'm an agent of chaos , and you know the thing about chaos? It's fair. — Heath Ledger

One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored. — Alan Paton

There is nothing in the way of amelioration of the conditions of life, of politics, of social and ethical matters, that may not be affected through the skilful application of those principles of advertising that, in business, have proved to be so wonderfully effective. — George Arthur French

Ideals are thoughts. So long as they exist merely as thoughts, the power in them remains ineffective. — Albert Schweitzer

an architect should not take a position of throw more hardware at it... that will fix all the problems. — Paul Allen

Creativity is a higher level of thinking because it often imposes a higher cognitive load as you think "harder" via different thought processes. — Pearl Zhu

The reason I regard training that involves the ki energy as crucial is because ki energy is the bridge that links our body and mind ... when you focus deeply inside on the ki energy, your mind becomes calm and serene. There's a feeling of peaceful comfort and safety that's hard to describe. Inside of that, there's no fear that you might lose something, there is no desperate need to control others, nor is there the desire for recognition or acceptance. There is only one self that is infinitely bright and peaceful and seems that for it anything would be possible. — Ilchi Lee

Yes, the jury was now out. Verdict: Mom liked Max for certain. — Kristen Ashley

The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court. — Ralph G. Neas